Lavender
A young gay man (Michael Hsu Rosen) grows increasingly entangled in the marriage of an older couple (Michael Urie, Ken Barnett).
Drama
Solvan "Slick" Naim
Stanhope
Based on true events, a Brooklyn teen gets caught up in a web of violence as a paid assassin.
News
Shakeups at Vimeo
In the wake of high-profile depatures at video sharing service Vimeo, an article in Indiewire questions how close the company is to achieving its goal of creating a marketplace for content creators and their audiences.
Drama
Eimi Imanishi & Julia Thompson
One Up
Hadley jumps into an uncomfortable sexual encounter after she's brutally rejected by her teammate crush Christine.
Drama
Spencer Gillis
Sweep
A tense chance encounter at a local recycling center leads to an instant friendship, which, in turn, leads to a bitter moment of reckoning.
Documentary
Rachael DeCruz
& Jeremy S. Levine
The Panola Project
Highlighting the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver to keep her small town of Panola, Alabama safe from COVID-19, this short documentary is a chronicle of how an often-overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to survive.
Festival
Widening the Lens Contest : Encounters & BFI
Looking to address the issue of a lack of diversity within the film industry the BFI Diversity Fund & Encounters Festival have created an exciting opportunity for new and emerging filmmakers from under-represented groups to create a short film.
Comedy
Doron Max Hagay
Vape
A self-conscious realtor develops a transformative obsession when she falls for a mechanic who vapes, set in the hazy sprawl of Los Angeles.
Experimental
Mitch Jenkins
Jimmy's End
Comics legend Alan Moore along with Mitch Jenkins unveil a phantasmagoric English dreamtime made of goosefleshed pin-up girls, burned out comedians and faulty lights, with judgement just behind the tinsel.
